Quotes about death
death weed growing-up
The seeds of Death are sown in us when we begin to live, and grow up till, like rampant weeds, they choak the tender flower of life. Samuel Richardson
death dying forget
To die completely, a person must not only forget but be forgotten, and he who is not forgotten is not dead. Samuel Butler
death men dying
If a man knows not life which he hath seen, how shall he know death, which he hath not seen?
death people dying
Our own death is a premium which we must pay for the far greater benefit we have derived from the fact that so many people have not only lived but also died before us.
death oil lamps
Death but supplies the oil for the inextinguishable lamp of life. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
death people funeral
The reason so many people turned up at his funeral is that they wanted to make sure he was dead. Samuel Goldwyn
death birth
Birth was the death of him. Samuel Beckett
death air dying
Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.
death imagination people
The worst, most insidious effect of censorship is that, in the end, it can deaden the imagination of the people. Where there is no debate, it is hard to go on remembering, every day, that there is a suppressed side to every argument. Salman Rushdie
death honesty
With death comes honesty.
death past men
Do not grieve. Misfortune will happen to the wisest and best of men. Death will come, always out of season. It is the command of the Great Spirit, and all nations and people must obey. What is past and cannot be prevented should not be grieved for... Misfortunes do not flourish particularly in our lives - they grow everywhere. Kent Nerburn
death men funeral
Nothing is dead: men feign themselves dead, and endure mock funerals and mournful obituaries, and there they stand looking out ofthe window, sound and well, in some new and strange disguise. Ralph Waldo Emerson
death men names
I have heard that death takes us away from ill things, not from good. I have heard that when we pronounce the name of man we pronounce the belief of immortality.
death sight soul
It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not die, but only retire a little from sight and afterward return again.
death wings hymns
Far or forgot to me is near; Shadow and sunlight are the same; The vanished gods to me appear; And one to me are shame and fame.They reckon ill who leave me out; When me they fly, I am the wings; I am the doubter and the doubt, And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.
death order rivers
All human beings are like travelers floating down the eternal river of time, embarking at a certain point and disembarking again at another point in order to make room for others waiting below the river to come aboard. Lin Yutang
death dying alive
You can't get out of life alive. Les Brown
death discworld taxes
I am death, not taxes. I turn up only once. Terry Pratchett
death magic lasts
Many an ancient lord's last words have been, 'You can't kill me because I've got magic aaargh.'
death suicide magic
You can't kill me, I've got a magic... AAAARGH !
death dying life-is
Death is one moment, and life is so many of them. Tennessee Williams
death blow men
A man, when he burns, leaves only a handful of ashes. No woman can hold him. The wind must blow him away.
death time dying
Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.
death animal giving
The human animal is a beast that dies but the fact that he’s dying don’t give him pity for others.
death insults-you trying
I will not insult you by trying to tell you that one day you will forget. I know as well as you that you will not. But, at least, in time you will not remember as fiercely as you do now - and I pray that that time may be soon. Terence Rattigan
death song hero
Sing your death song and die like a hero going home. Tecumseh
death aunt pet
We died like aunts of pets or foreigners. Randall Jarrell
death thinking red
If the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways, I keep and pass and turn again.
death real fall
We've discovered that the earth isn't flat; that we won't fall off its edges, and our experience as a species has changed as a result. Maybe we'll soon find out that the self isn't "flat" either, and that death is as real and yet as deceptive as the horizon; that we don't fall out of life either. Seth
death integrity important
Your Integrity is more important than your immediate Life. L. Ron Hubbard
death dying wells
If it's peace you find in dying, well then let the time be near. Laura Nyro
death ephemeral remember
Everything is ephemeral, both that which remembers and that which is remembered. Marcus Aurelius
death thoughtful maturity
Do not fear death, but welcome it, since it too comes from nature. For just as we are young and grow old, and flourish and reach maturity, have teeth and a beard and grey hairs, conceive, become pregnant, and bring forth new life, and all the other natural processes that follow the seasons of our existence, so also do we have death. A thoughtful person will never take death lightly, impatiently, or scornfully, but will wait for it as one of life's natural processes.